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Catalina Pueblo ChronicleJanuary 2014
State of the PuebloJean Paine, President
In This Issue:
Page 2 & 3 Holiday Party
Page 4 & 5
Garden Gallimaufry
Page 6Pueblo Recipes
Page 7Tried & True Trades
Page 8October Financials
Page 9Committees
Board of DirectorsAgenda January 23Light Bulb Brigade
Hope everyone had a grand 2013. I certainly had a busy and fun filled year. I’m looking forward to another year as part of the wonderful Catalina Pueblo HOA Board. We had a productive year and I learned a lot from my fellow Board members.
I look forward to updating everyone at the Annual Meeting on January 23 and introducing the new Board members to you. The Annual Meeting packets will be emailed (or delivered or mailed for those who do not have email) within the next few days.
Happy New Year.
Landscape & ArchitecturePat Wagner
Happy New Year! It’s the season for resolutions, and as the chair of the HOA’s Landscape and Architecture committee my resolution for 2014 is to continue and expand the spring fix-up campaign that was so successful last year.
In 2013 we focused on mailboxes and mistletoe. Board members walked the streets, paths, and washes of Catalina Pueblo and identified more than 20 “worst case” mailboxes and more than 20 trees with mistletoe infestations. We notified the property owners, and in nearly every case they responded positively and painted and pruned. As a result our streets look better and our trees are healthier.
Next month Board members will be patrolling again, this time checking not only mailboxes but also lamp posts, gates and window grills. We’ll again look for mistletoe, but also for desert broom and packrat middens. And we’ll also check for other exterior maintenance issues. What we find will be reported to the owners, and I’m confident the community spirit that was exhibited last year will result in another round of improvements for 2014. Happy New Year!
PoolsHal Grieve
You may have noticed new signs on the gates at the Caballo and Minera pools stating that these pools will not be heated for the winter season. The pools will still be available for residents who would like to sunbathe, read or whatever. Should you be a member of the Polar Bear Club, then of course, feel free to take a dip!
In my last note to the community I indicated that the pools were running so smoothly that it made me a little nervous. Several weeks ago that changed. First, the Caballo solar collectors sprang a leak. I had the original vendor, Sun Power of Arizona, come up to track-down the problem and fix it. The replacement of several simple fitting did the job, and the solar system will be ready to go in the spring.
Next, one of our residents (Carol Sinclair) contacted me to say that while walking her dog she noticed strange noises coming from the Adelita pool. I investigated immediately and found the water level about three inches low and a small geyser of water squirting from a water line near the filter. I turned off the equipment and called our pool man from Progressive Pools (Alan). It was Saturday so he wasn’t on the job, but based on my description of the situation, he gave me some basic instructions for a fix. The night before had been very cold and a small plastic flex line had broken, thus the geyser. I was able to cut and reattach the line, bleed the filters and get all systems back into operation. We really dodged a bullet this time. Running the system at a low water level could cause serious damage.
All is well again and being nervous would make me very happy. Lastly, I encourage all residents to report things around the pools that don’t seem quite right - phone 299-6235.
2014 Annual Meeting
ThursdayJanuary 23
Meeting:7:00 pm – 9:00 pmRegistration: 6:15
Catalina FoothillsHigh School
Seminar Room House 1
4300 E. Sunrise
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Spring LuncheonSaturday, March 15
12:00-1:30pmPastiche Modern Eatery
3025 N Campbell Ave.$20 per person
Menu choices to be announced in late
January.
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Garden GallimaufryMark Sammons
Mark J. [email protected]
615-6019
To many of us, The Secret Garden is an Edwardian children’s book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, a product of the tail end of the Sweetness and Light movement, a nineteenth-century conviction that the world could be improved through beauty (sweetness) and education (light). It and similar works from the period were literary iterations of the edenic or paradisiacal bookends of many world religions.
The term secret garden has an earlier usage than Burnett’s. It appeared in Renaissance Italy – giardino segreto – in connection with the gardens of the nobility. These departures from the walled or cloistered precincts of the medieval fortified house or monastery sprawled over acres, and were not merely a setting, but also the ultimate accessory of wealth and power.
All ranks of society lived in a public way that would astonish moderns. Even the great palaces, villas, and gardens of the nobility swarmed with courtiers, servants, visitors with their entourages, and assorted hangers-on. A desire for privacy drove the evolution of private rooms for those few who could afford it, where the head of the household could be alone or among a chosen few associates, friends and advisors. These small and often opulent rooms emerged as the Italian studiolo, the French cabinet (whence a president’s or prime minister’s board of advisors), or the British closet.
The garden equivalent to these private rooms was the secret garden, giardino segreto, meant for private contemplation, study, or quiet conversation. It was partitioned by walls or hedges from the rest of the garden, and inaccessible to most of the extended household. Some were hard up against a private wing of the villa, as at the now-neglected giardino segreto at Villa d’Este east of Rome, accessed from Ippolito d’Este’s private apartments.
At Alessandro Farnese’s Villa Caprarola in Viterbo, the secret garden was placed beyond a chestnut woodland, and ornamented by a pavilion, or casino, of habitable scale. Villa Giulia, built by Pope Julius III on the north edge of old Rome was virtually an oversized casino with a series of walled private garden, within easy distance of the public life of the papal palaces. Three secret gardens flank the Scipione Borghese’s immense Villa in Rome.
The French adopted the secret garden, most conspicuously in the attempts of consecutive monarchs to find privacy in the sprawling complex at Versailles. Louis XIV and XV built the two trianon, miniature chateaux, for privacy
Photos by Mark J. Sammons
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with their mistresses, and Louis XVI’s wife Marie Antoinette famously built l’Hameau de la Reine, the pretend country village in the gardens of Versailles where, in privacy, she could play with her favorites at the simple country life.
The English adopted the secret garden in the form of the private or privy garden, often associated with royal properties, as at Hampton and Whitehall, as well as alongside the great baroque manors of that country.
In the 18th century, most of the formal gardens in the Italianate taste in Britain were swept away by a new artfully naturalistic landscape style that eventually swept the Continent and obliterated most formal gardens, even in Italy.
A few of the old ones survived, and there was a limited revival of formality in mid to late 19th-century British gardens (which expatriates carried to Italy at the turn of the century). In time – perhaps under the influence of Burnett’s book – any secluded garden came to be perceived as a “secret garden” whether or not meant in the original Italianate sense of a private garden separate from the more public portion of the grounds.
While northern European architecture increasingly faced outward over garden and landscape, North African and Spanish architecture persisted in an earlier Mediterranean history of looking inward on courtyards. This carried over into Mexico and spread up into today’s American Southwest. While the Hispanic tradition was one of houses hard against the street, sheltering a private space behind, the 19th-century Anglo arrivals brought their tradition of freestanding outward-looking houses. You can see the contrast easily by comparing houses on the west sides of the 300 and 400 blocks of North Main Avenue (Anglo) and North Meyer Avenue (Hispanic), only a block apart.
Over the course of the 20th century there was a reversal; Hispanics increasingly adopted outward facing homes, while Anglos, under the influence of a romantic notion of a Spanish colonial outpost, increasingly adopted the inward-facing house.
This cultural inversion was adopted in the design of the Pueblo, where all of our homes have only a few windows to the front, and devote most of their glass and porches to a deeply hidden and walled garden, a secret garden. In this season of botanical stasis, take a good book out to your secret garden and settle in for a nice read.
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JANUARY GARDEN CHORES:
-Watch for freeze warnings, and cover plants
sensitive plants.
-Top sensitive columnar cacti with styrofoam cups.
-Water wildflowers seedlings weekly.
-Thin wildflower seedlings.
-Deciduous and bare-root plants can be planted in
January & February.
-Prune hybrid tea roses, water twice a week, but
do not feed till February.
-Fertilize iris in January.
-Plant additional batches of cool-weather herbs and
vegetables.
-Start tomatoes from seed indoors.
-Removing diseased, damaged, or dead
branches from deciduous shrubs and trees.
-Clean out under perennial plants to discourage
animal pests and plant diseases.
-Clean the wild spaces outside your garden wall.
-Minimize watering during winter.
Next month, look forward to Carol Sinclair’s famous
Champagne Sauce for her baked ham!
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Tried & True TradesHeating & CoolingHamstra Heating & Cooling - Wes Adams 629-9833 ext. 317Recommended by Nancy Milburn
Garage Door - RepairAnthony Labato - C&R Garage Doors312-9325 Recommended by Jeff Mott
House Cleaning ServicesLevinia 406-5630 & Pamela 282-9096Recommended by Jo Ann Marcus & Connie ChurchAlexandra Nicol 400-6058Recommended by Carol Sinclair & Jean PaineMaria Josefina Leon 339-0646Recommended by Gisele Nelson & Sandra Nelson-WinklerTrini Baker (Spanish Speaker)Call Joe (820-8364) as her English is limited Recommended by Joe & Sandy Thompson
Landscaping/GardenersBeautiful SpacesJude DiMeglio Trang 360-4282Recommended by Nancy MilburnBlue Agave Landscape & Lighting DesignDean Alexander 325-4242Recommended by David Scott Allen & Mark SammonsMargaret L. Joplin 623-8068 or 271-6585(c)Design & InstallationRecommended by Paul MaxonFrancisco Enriquez 405-8527Recommended by Jo Ann Marcus & Gisele NelsonPots: The Mexican Garden, Marta Avila2901 N. Oracle 624-4772Recommended by Jo Ann Marcus
Manicure/Pedicure, Gels & SilksVictoria at Mauricio Fregoso Salon 795-3384Recommended by Connie Church
PlumberDavid Solis [email protected] by Cherry RosenbergJerry Walker, Walkers Plumbing 888-7337Recommended by Russ CardenSteve Konst 883-1635Recommended by Aldine von Isser & Hal Grieve
Remodels & General ConstructionTed Vasquez 241-9799 Recommended by Bill & Cassandra Ridlinghafer Ron Landis 743-4892 [email protected] by Nancy Milburn & Ellen Siever
RoofingAlan Bradley Roofing - 885-3571Recommended by Jo Ann Marcus
Window CleaningDoug & Deb Lockett 584-8419Recommended by Caryl Daugherty
AdobeArmando Pacheco302-0711 (cell) 663-1386Recommended by Aldine von Isser & Hal Grieve
Auto MaintenanceKurt Tomson - Mechanic940-7285 (works on all types of vehicles) Recommended by Joe & Sandra ThompsonJim Davis - AlignmentDouble D Alignment - 632-4842Recommended by Joe & Sandra Thompson
Carpet CleaningBoyds Chemdry 760-2244 Recommended by Caryl Daugherty
Custom CabinetsRene Menard Woodworks Custom Cabinets 400-5530 or Nogales #287-8643Recommended by Marianne Van Zyll
Custom Concrete WorkCherry Enterprises - David Cherry343-0068Recommended by Jeff & Judy Mott
Computer RepairDesert Sky Technology - 797-7479Recommended by Jeff & Judy Mott
DogsPatty Monson (Dog Walker) 572-1467Camalot Canine Resort (Boarding) 742-6279Recommended by Walter Gaby
Drywall & PaintingRuben Duran 275-5532 Recommended by Jeff & Judy Mott
ElectricianPhil Clounch - 520-390-0471Recommended by Jeff & Judy MottFrank Tentschert 577-4987 & 907-5990Recommended by Jo Ann Marcus
ExterminatorsNorthwest Exterminating 888-4308 Recommended by Sherry Henderson
Furniture Craftsmen, Antique Restoration and moreJohn 888-9234 [email protected] by Marianne Van Zyll
Handiman Robert Cross 390-2623Recommended by Marianne Van ZyllShawn Henderson 745-2169Recommended by Nan MilburnCraig Spittle 204-4149 Recommended by Joe & Sandra ThompsonCary McKeever 241-0810Recommended by Lew & Caryl Daugherty
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Treasurer ReportDonn Poll - Acting Treasurer
Catalina Pueblo Association Statements of Cash Flows an dbudgetJanuary -‐ November 2013
YTD Actual 2013 Annual
Budget Budget YTD Remaining
Income:Association Dues 53,800.00$ 54,000.00$ 200.00$ Interest Income 9.09 5.00 (4.09)$ Event Income 860.00 (860.00)$ Title Transfer Fees 2,400.00 400.00 (2,000.00)$
TOTAL INCOME 57,069.09$ 54,405.00$ (2,664.09)$
Expenses:Administrative:
Postage/Printing/Misc 822.56$ 1,285.00$ 462.44$ Taxes & Fess -‐ 100.00 100.00 Insurance -‐ 2,000.00 2,000.00
Subtotal 822.56$ 3,385.00$ 2,562.44$
Reserve Fund: 1,000.00$ 1,000.00$ -‐$
Neighborhood Infrastructure:Landscaping 5,511.04$ 6,600.00$ 1,088.96$ Contingencies -‐ 3,300.00 3,300.00 Roads & Drainage -‐ 1,500.00 1,500.00 Security & Lightbulbs 1,337.24 1,200.00 (137.24)
Subtotal 6,848.28$ 12,600.00$ 5,751.72$
Neighborhood Social Activites: 1,684.49$ 2,000.00$ 315.51$
Recreational -‐ Pools:Routine Services/Chemicals 7,453.58$ 6,000.00$ (1,453.58)$ Pool Repairs 3,122.26 7,660.00 4,537.74 Southwest Gas 6,655.14 9,000.00 2,344.86 Tucson Electric Company 8,139.30 7,500.00 (639.30) City of Tucson Water 1,974.86 2,300.00 325.14 Housekeeping 1,490.00 1,960.00 470.00 Other (permits/termites/furniture) 1,609.88 1,000.00 (609.88)
Subtotal 30,445.02$ 35,420.00$ 4,974.98$ TOTAL EXPENSES 40,800.35$ 54,405.00$
REMAINING BUDGET 13,604.65$
Net Cash Flow 16,268.74 Interest Income on Reserve (9.09) Budgeted Reserve Transfer 1,000.00 Net Cash Flow from Operations 17,259.65
2013 Checking and Reserve Funds Checking Reserve Total
Balance 1/1/2013 6,299.83 14,682.96 20,982.79 2012 Carryover added to Reserve (4,687.83) 4,687.83 -‐ Add to Reserve from 2013 Budget (1,000.00) 1,000.00 -‐ Total net Cash Flow 17,259.65 9.09 17,268.74
Balance 11/30/2013 17,871.65$ 20,379.88$ 38,251.53$
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Jean Paine — President Carol Sinclair — Vice President
Connie Church — Secretary Donn Poll — Acting Treasurer
David Scott Allen — Social & Membership
Pat Wagner — Landscape & Architecture
Hal Grieve — Pools
2013 Board of DirectorsLease Enforcement Committee: Carol Sinclair
Landscape/Architecture: Pat Wagner, Chair JoAnn Marcus Mark Sammons
Javelina Express: Marti Greason Cherry Rosenberg Marianne Van Zyll Cassandra Wry Ridlinghafer
Light Bulbs: Aldine von Isser & Hal Grieve Robert Cross Pools: Hal Grieve, Chair Sherri Henderson Marti Greason Terry Temple Jeff Mott
Directory: JoAnnMarcus,Updates/Proofing David Scott Allen, Cover & Photos Connie Church, Layout & Design
Newsletter: PuebloRecipes: David Scott Allen Spotlight on a Neighbor: Patricia Weigand Connie Church Garden Gallimaufry: Mark Sammons Editor: Connie Church
Web site: www.catalinapueblo.com Connie Church
Communication Committee: Connie Church, Secretary/Chair Jo Ann Marcus Mark Sammons David Scott Allen
Please contact the board via email:[email protected]
Board Meeting Agenda January 23, 2014
Call to Order
Approval of December minutes
Election of OfficersAppointment of Committee Chairs
New Business Board Meeting Schedule for 2014
Adjournment
The agenda will be published each month in the Chronicle. Only items on the agenda will receive board action unless there is an emergency. By publishing the agenda in advance, we seek member comment on pending issues. Comment can be sent to our board email address, in writing to the secretary or you may choose to appear at the meeting, space available. To request items to be placed on the agenda, use the same addresses.
Committees:
The Board may at any time go into executive session to consider legal or other permitted matters.
Our website, www.catalinapueblo.com, has all our Catalina Pueblo information including
our CC&Rs, complete Rules, past minutes, past newsletters, plant lists, remodel forms, HOA
information and more.
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Report from the Bulb Brigade
We have developed a new
system for monitoring the lamppost bulbs in our
community.
Hal and Aldine will check for burned out bulbs
weekly indicating on a map those that need to
be replaced. Hal used to do it but owing to his
“advancing age” he no longer feels comfortable
climbing ladders, dodging cactus, nor walking walls.
Our younger neighbor, Rob Cross, has kindly
volunteered to take the map and make the bulb
changes.
If you need an immediate bulb replacement, please
call Hal and Aldine at 299-6235 or email:
[email protected]. Or email Rob:
We give our special thanks to Rob for his help.
Aldine & Hal
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